Paul Ryan’s sister-in-law.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Three Senate Republicans voted to confirm her to the seat she has now on the D.C. circuit court — a not-insignificant number these days. They were Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“I think she’s qualified for the job. She has a different philosophy than I do,” Graham told reporters at the time.
When she was being confirmed for her first federal judgeship in 2012, then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who would go on to be House speaker, introduced her. The two are related by marriage (Ryan’s sister-in-law is married to the twin brother of Jackson’s husband). Ryan said “although our politics may differ, my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal.”